 Hey what's going on guys Tom Davis here America's canine educator thank you so much for joining me today you guys we have a very interesting case this case from start to finish I learned so much from and I've watched this episode three or four times before I uploaded it to you guys just just step by step just leash reactivity why is this dog it's like one of the most reactive dogs I've ever seen on a leash very interesting anyway we go over the entire process so what is leash reactivity how it's created why does it look like aggression why does the dog look like he wants to kill me or he or she wants to kill me so we're gonna be dissecting and going over all of that in this episode if you guys haven't yet do me a favor like this video subscribe to my channel or drop in behavioral videos like this every single week at least twice a week I appreciate you guys watching again I'm just gonna stop talking we're gonna get into this video I love this video I hope you guys enjoy it let's go and then just let her go and I want to see what she does and I'll just pull her back okay so it could be just you guys too could be a big problem with you guys so what I want to do is do you think we can get a muzzle on or without a freaking come on me don't leave it leave it come on me a good girl all right what I want to do is I want you guys to just hang out right right out the window here if I wave you in that means she's got her muzzle off and then you come in and call her all right you guys so this is a dog that we trained with a while ago and she does have some reactivity issues but now it's gotten worse they've been moving a couple of times and so as you can see she's very explosive but die dissecting the behavior it's clearly so what I always try to do is if I get a dog that's reactive like this I try to figure out exactly what the triggers are as well as what the variables are and so obviously in the owner's hands super reactive to me and then owners are gone she's like okay now I don't care about you so the point is guys is it doesn't have anything to do with me it has to do with how she feels with her owners and so I'm gonna work her a little bit we're gonna have the owners come in we're gonna figure this out good job sit yes good sit you come good girl good job baby I feel pretty good I'm gonna just see how she does with me on her level me come come good job good job all right good so I don't want so I want you guys to just notice what I did I didn't I don't want to go face-to-face with her like this like me you in the camera I always want to go side with her with a dog that's iffy like this I'm using the Herm Springer right now it's giving me the most control if I didn't have this collar on it would be a lot harder for me to do what I'm doing so equipment right now guys is a size for Baskerville as well as a Herm Springer 2.25 size safety clip and a four foot training leash I'm gonna get down on her level again oh what a difference what a difference so again guys watch what I'm doing very neutral just kind of turning my body to her I don't want to square up with her at all and caught cause any kind of conflict and I'm doing that because earlier she was very triggered really quickly so if I'm here and her face is here it could potentially cause conflict I learned this with the wolves working with the wolves is whenever you get a wolf that's at the sanctuary very like in your face and kind of challenging and sometimes it happens out of nowhere and they've never done it before it can get kind of scary but you're just kind of neutral and you're shutting down and you're being very no eye contact no frontal body pressure very just submissive almost so that's what I was just doing I'm gonna heal around a little bit more so what you guys are what you guys are seeing is a is a case of reactivity so it looks aggressive and as you guys know if I if I label something in my title as aggressive dog I'm labeling it for you guys because dog owners are the people who I want to help you guys are the people who are who need help desperately so on the outside it does externally look like aggression and so that's why this title is aggressive dog because it looks aggressive and that's what many people would perceive this as it's obviously not aggression this dog does not have an actual problem with me physically or as a human being this dog is reactive so reactive means we have one variable and another variable which creates a reaction Mentos and Coca-Cola reaction separately their Mentos and Coca-Cola this dog with the owner creates a reaction why I don't know yet we're gonna keep figuring that out make sure you keep watching don't forget like this video subscribe to my channel hawk my mouth was being a little baby hi guys we're just gonna bring the owners in now and we're gonna we're gonna work this out get the kinks out here we go interesting huh yep I mean you said hi but it's not so much you're the problem your relationship is the problem that's all I'm gonna give her back to you and then I want you to just walk around again okay so now I want you to just hand the leash off to me so we're gonna yep so come back this way hand the leash off to me again good good so no reaction so I think what we're dealing with here guys is relationship obviously you said you set her off wicked and again it's nothing personal it's just how whatever whatever her perception of you and your relationship with her is what creates her to be reactive so anyway happens all the time a lot of dog owner struggle with this reaction and this reactivity so what we have to do is we have to make your relationship better but the other side of that is obedience so and she when he when she comes in she's you know pulling right through so as soon as you let a dog say I'm gonna do this doesn't matter if it's barking pulling jumping peeing on you whatever doesn't matter insert whatever and you don't effectively shut that down and say that's not appropriate behavior you're enabling just like with kids right they show up to a family event they just start peeing or something and you're like whatever you know they're gonna they're gonna think that's okay right same thing with a sharpie on the wall so this is a good behavioral case because you can see she's not content with being away from you it's not that she doesn't like me because when you guys are gone she's you know exactly so right here this tells us that she has it she has a unhealthy relationship for you for whatever reason so a dog shouldn't always be like gotta go gotta go gotta go just like with people right I came in here and I'm sitting here I'm constantly like I gotta go I gotta go I gotta go you guys are gonna be alright you should just go so this is telling us something so I'm gonna work on so here see not good so we're gonna work on obedience you guys just ignore her as much as you can so I'm gonna do a tune-up something I do every session with all the dogs you guys probably know heal back and forth getting her attention making sure she's compliant to my verbal using the Herm Springer as an enforcer and this is the first thing we're gonna do before we get into any other thing so she's up here with you guys as a balloon slowly but surely I'm gonna deflate that anxiety and I'm gonna create a better relationship so she doesn't feel like she has to go with you so in the next five minutes I'm gonna use this tool to say no no no no no and she's gonna go and then maybe she'll lay down and taking that right I'm just gonna take the muzzle off I think she's gonna be okay yes good girl good job you thank you tell her me a sit good sit good girl you remember that yes a good girl it's a good girl this is great and I and I and I love learning from this too it's like this is a just an interesting case she loved us she came in she wanted to just go crazy on the leash and now she's back so it's like okay what the heck happened so now what I want to see is study her behavior of the next two minutes she goes to you I'm gonna recall her off I'm gonna give her everything she wants and I'm assuming judging by her behavior currently she's gonna be stressed of course because she's overly stimulated it doesn't matter what spectrum it's on she's happy scared mad sad or anxious we're gonna let her go and I want to see what what she does on her own okay me a break what a good girl so her anxiety is decreased significantly right she doesn't feel that okay so why is this happening from what I see it's probably just lack of control on the leash so I want to start there so I want you guys to handle there's there's no reason why we can't handle her just like this with you guys when you're handling her everyone does this so don't be in fix it mode you're in fix it mode right now you're constantly you can tell your attention is is she doing it is she doing it am I doing it she picks up on that so she knows you're in that trial state of mind in that trial atmosphere you want to be confident if it's you know just act like this is what you do so what I would recommend shoulder straight eyes and head forward and just walk and she's with you and what you want to do is think about it kind of like fishing don't touch the line the leash unless you feel a tug back so she starts to get out of her heel pop pop pop set the hook if you will right tell her no no no right but you keep moving your momentum because what you're doing in here is practice you're working on what you need to do but at the same time it's going to be an unnatural unrealistic sustainable heel out there right because you're not going to do that this is what you're going to do if you did that boom alright you guys that's a wrap for today thank you so much for joining me if you guys haven't yet do not forget to like this video smash that subscribe button I will be putting out videos like this every single day and my hands are covered with dog hair if you guys haven't yet do not 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